Walter glass



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

W. GLASS. v ELECTRIC CIGAR LIGHTER.

No. 307,759. Patented Nov. 11, 1884.

(No Model.) 2 SheetsSheet 2. W. GLASS.

ELECTRIC (ll GAR LIGHTER.

No. 307,759. Patented Nov. 11,1884.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER GLASS, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO SIGBIUN D BERGMANN AND EDXVARD IiI. JOHNSON, BOTI'I OF SAME PLACE.

ELECTRIC CIGAR-LIGHTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 307,759, dated November 11, 1884.

Application filed August 13, 1883.

T aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IVALTER GLASS, of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Electric Oigar- Lighters, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this improvement is to produce an electric cigar-lighter which will be simple, easily operated, and withal durable.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of an electric cigarlighter embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view of another electric ci- I 5 gar-lighter embodying the improvement, but modified in form. Fig. 3 is a sectional side view of the body of a torch for an electric eigar-lighter. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a detachable plug forming part of the torch.

Fig. 5 is an end view of this plug. Fig. (5 is a sectional view of the end of this plug. Fig. 7 is a sectional side view of the body of a torch of modified form. Fig. 8 is a perspective View of a removable plug forming part of this torch. Fig. 9 is an end View of this plug. Fig. 10 is a sectional view of the end of this plug. Fig. 11 is a plan of a torch of modified form, and Fig. 12 is atransverse sec tion of this torch.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates the torch of the cigar-lighter.

I will first describe the torch shown in detail in Figs. 3, 4., 5, and 6.

The outer shell, 0, of the body may be made of metal or other material and of any desirable contour. In the rear or bottom portion is arranged a disk, A, of insulating material. At the extreme rear the shell is provided with a socket, (1, whereby it maybe secured to any support.

B is a screw-threaded metal eylindenwhich may be formed by spinning it out of sheet metal. It is mounted upon the disk A, and

5 has openings 1) in opposite sides. Inside this cylinder, and between its openings 1), a frame, B, is arranged. This frame conforms to the interior of the cylinder B. The rear end or bottom of the cylinder is turned inward, and

the frame B rests against it. Screws 0 are (X0 model.)

passed through the disk A and inserted in the frame B, thereby'securing the frame to the disk and clamping the rear end or bottom of the cylinder between the frame and disk. The frame B is provided opposite one of the 5 5 openings b of the cylinder B with a bindingscrew, S.

O is a diaphragm of insulating material that is fitted into the cylinder B just in front of the frame B. On this diaphragm is secured by a screw, (7, a metal plate, D, that is bent over the diaphragm, and provided opposite one of the openings 1) of the cylinder B with a bindingscrew, S. ires E E, whereby an electric current is conducted to the torch, pass through a hole or holes in the disk A, and are fastened to the bindingscrews S S. The plug of this torch may be made of slate, plaster-ofparis, wood, or other insulating material. It has at the inner end a metal plate, F, and on its exterior a cylindrie screw-threaded metal shell, G. When the plug is screwed into the cylinder B, the cylindric screw-threaded metal shell G of the plug makes electrical contact with the said cylinder B, and the metal plate F of the plug makes electrical contact with the metal plate D. Wires H II lead, respect ively, from the-metal plate F and cylindric screw-threaded metal shell G of the plug to the outer end of the plug. In the outer end of the plug is a recess, f, in which is fitted a piece or disk of asbestns. A fine metal wire, I, is run or stitched back and forth through the asbestus and connected at the ends to the ends of the wires II II. The asbestus forms 8 a support or backing for the wire I, thereby lessening the liability of the breakage of this wire. W hen a current of electricity passes through this wire, the wire becomes incandescent, or heated to such a degree as to be 0 capable of igniting a cigar pressed against it.

The torch shown in Figs. '7, 8, 9, and 10 is very similar to the one just described. On the diaphragm O, however, two spring-metal contact-pieces, J J, are mounted. They are 5 secured by screws, and have the ends of the wires E E clamped between them and the diaphragm. The plug in this case may be made of any suitable insulating material. It is provided with spring-metal contact-pieces K K, IOO

which may be inserted between the springmetal contact-pieces J J, so as to make electrical contact therewith. The ineandescing wire I is in this example of my improvement connected to the plug at numerous points in its length by wires g, extending from the outer end of the plug.

In Figs. 11 and 12 I have shown a body, L, made of any suitable conducting material, and consisting, essentially, of converging side plates, h. Thewires E E are fastened to it in such a way as to be insulated from each other. The plug is made of insulating material and like the body L in shape, although made slightly narrower. It has an ineandescing wire stitched or run through it, and the ends of this wire are in electrical communica tion with the wires E E when the plug is in place in the body-piece.

Turning now to Figs. 1 aml 2, it will be seen that the wires 19 1*) are comprised in a cable, or, in other words, enveloped by a covering common to both. Of course, they are illsulated from each other. This cable in the examples of my improvement shown in Figs. 1 and 2 forms the sole support of the torches.

In each of the examples of the improvement shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the torch is shown as provided with a handle, M, extending from the outer shell, 0, of the body.

In Fig. l the wire l1] extends to wire, N, forming one of the line-wires of a multiple-arc circuit, and the wire E leads to a metal switch, P. \Vhen the torch hangs on the cable cmbracing the wires E E,it pulls down the switch I ,so that it will not make contact with its contact-piece 1?. From the contact-piece I a wire, 1, extends to incandescent electric lamps Q, and these lamps are connected to the line-wire N ol' the multiple are circuit. Then the torch is lifted by its handle so that the switch 1P makes contact with its contactpoint I an electric current will traverse the ineandescing wire I 01' the torch and heat it sufficiently to adapt it for use in lighting a cigar. The electric lamps constitute a resistance to prevent injury to the ineandescing wire of the torch. \Vhen the torch hangs from the cable comprising the wires E E, no current traverses its ineandescing wire.

In Fig. 2 the wire l9 leads to one pole of a battery, It, and the wire 1 leading from the contact-piece I? of the switch P, connects with the other pole of the battery The operation of the torch here shown is like the operation of the torch shown in Fig. 1.

In all examples of my improvement the plug of the torch may be removed, if desirable, to facilitate repairing it or to replace it with another.

I am aware that it is not new to suspend a telephone from a switch by means of a n0nconducting cord in such manner that the circuit will be broken when the telephone is supported by the cord, and I do not here claim such a combination of parts.

I am also aware that it is old in electric cigar-lighters to operate the switch mechanism independently of any movement of the conductingwires.

I am also aware that an incandescent lamp has been dctachably secured in a socket and so combined therewith that a current might be transmitted from the socket to it.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patient, is

1. The combination of an electric torch, comlucting-wires suspending the same, and a yielding switch to which one of the conducting-wires is connected, substantially as specified, whereby when the torch is suspended by the comlucting-wires the switch will be opened through the weight of the torch, and when the torch is lifted for use the switch will be closed.

The coi'nbination, in an electric torch, of a body piece connected to wires or conductors, a removable plug having an ineandescing substance so arranged that when an electric currentis passed through it it maybe utilized for lighting a cigar, and a support or backing for said ineandescing substance, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, in an electric torch, of a body-piece connected to wires or conductors, a removable plug having an incamlescing wire so arranged that it may be utilized for lighting a cigar when an electric current is passed through it, and a support or backing for said ineandescing wire, substantially as specified.

l. The combination, in an electrictorch, of a body-piece connected to wires or conductors, and a removable plug having an ineandescing wire stitched or run through asbestns, substantially as specified.

WAIIPER ('XVLASS.

Witnesses:

War. Scurry, WM. s. BAINTOX. 

